the dramatized specials and the regurgitated programming from the 90s makes it unwatchable.

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I worked on one of those years ago and we used real sharks. Real dead sharks. We filmed it in Florida, but had to order the shark from someplace like Jersey for some reason. It took like three days to arrive on ice and by the time it arrived, it was already starting to rot. An effects guy rigged it with wires and we re-enacted an attack on some woman who lost her arm. We used fake blood to simulate the gore and by the end of the shoot, between the rotting carcass and corn syrup, we had started to attract a handful of real sharks. We had to pull everybody out of the water in the hopes they would lose interest, but that wasn't happening. Eventually, we cut the shark loose and about twenty minutes after that two sharks came in and started taking chunks from it. It was a pretty cool day at the office.